"Midnight Special's" faster tempo at the end is a metaphor for this.
What is a train?
100
This is when Ruth Crawford Seeger's "String Quartet" was written.
What is 1930?
100
This is perhaps the most famous example of a patriotic parlor song.
What is the "Star Spangled Banner"
100
This is the steady pulse that underlies most music.
What is the beat?
200
This is the distance between A and the next lower or higher A note
What is an octave?
200
Flattened third, fifth, or seventh scale degrees are all types of this.
What is a blue note?
200
These modernists tried new approaches to rhythm, timbre, and mechanical invention.
Hint: A type of person not a specific modernist.
What are experimentalists?
200
In the 1933 the "film musical" blossomed and this company economically dominated the music industry.
What is Hollywood
200
Pianists playing blues often use these notes since "bent" blues notes exist between keys of a piano.
Example: E-natural, and E-Flat
Hint: mashed together
What are crushed notes?
300
This category of instruments uses vibrating strings to create sound waves.
What is chordophones?
300
"Cotton Tail" is a variation form of this song.
What is "I Got Rhythm?"
300
This documentary was shown by the Resettlement Administration to support struggling victims of the Dust Bowl.
What is "The Plow that Broke the Plains?"
300
Being able to afford a piano was considered a sign of this.
What is elevated social class?
300
These are referred to as European "high art."
Hint: There are 2 types of music.
What are operas and symphonies
400
This world-wide-event later led to advances in electronic instruments.
What is WWII?
400
Scott Joplin is a famous pianist of this music tradition (genre).
What is ragtime?
400
This is the rhythmic pattern of Variation 4 of "Piano Variations."
What is short-long-long or dotted?
400
Early American song was of this origin.
What is religious?
400
In scene 6 of "The Cradle Will Rock" Dauber and Yasha believe they have exclusive access to her.
Who is Mrs. Mister?
500
This is the set of accidentals at the beginning of a piece.
What is a key structure?
500
This is when Robert Johnson's fame sparked.
What is posthumously? (after-death)
500
This art show, held in New York in 1913, introduced composers to the modernist movement.
What is the Armory Show?
500
He grew up in India, and attended Yale and Harvard University, and wrote "I get a kick out of you."
Who is Col Porter?
500
Ben Webster's increasingly raspy timbre is known as this effect.